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[edit] Template AI

Hello. I was wondering why you reverted my changes to the template. My goal was to introduce a cnadle image that looked similar to the AI logo, but the photo I selected is licensed under a free license and it is hosted at the Wikimedia Commons. The reason why I did this is that at WP:FU, at the criteria page, there is a statement that Fair use logos and photos should not be used on templates or on user pages. The icon yall used, the AI logo, is tagged as a fair use photo and that means the photo is not allowed to be used on the template as the icon. I hope you understand my actions and we can see if we could work something out. Zach (Smack Back) 02:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm. Does the license apply to the image file or the content of the image? How about if I make a mirror image of the logo and publish it as free work? TCorp 02:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
While I believe it is the file, since I created my own donkey head icon for the US Democrat template and I tagged it as PD. However, I was planning to use that white candle image since it looked close to the logo, or a image of a real life candle burning, since the main symbol of AI is a candle behind a section of barbed wire. While I do apologize if the logo/icon does not look like the AI logo, but I am just making sure that image rules are followed. Zach (Smack Back) 03:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Good job with the new icon. Thanks again for talking this out with me and hearing me out. Zach (Smack Back) 03:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
No prob TCorp 03:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "on strike"

You realise that won't change anything right? If anything that ugly cow will just be cackling with glee that WP:UB lost a member as a result of her admin abuse -_- You'd make more of a difference by helping replace what was lost and maybe writing something on the RfC --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 16:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm still a member and I have previously posted in the RfC and will be back once the dust settles and she is no longer an administrator. When those two criteria are met I'll be glad to help in whatever capacity the project needs. However, if she remains an administrator I see no reason in investing time and effort creating and maintaining boxes with someone like her around that will with no prior votes or reasoning delete arbitrarily what she wishes, providing post-justification based solely on her selfish reasoning. TCorp 16:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Icons again

Good work on the icons you have uploaded so far. You got some really good tallent with whatever drawing program you use. I personally think the only problem with icons is that there are some that will be impossible to replace, but if you and I want to work together on this, that will be fine with me. Zach (Smack Back) 08:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Userboxes

I am aware that you pulled out for now to help remove yourself form the dispute. But can you please help us in the current tasks of ensuring none of the userbxes break wiki policy. Thanks! Ian13ID:540053 12:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my futurama user box

Don't edit my user page. Cornell Rockey 05:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I was removing a duplicate userbox (User futurama). I'll remember to leave you out next time a cleanup is due. :-D TCorp 14:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
PS: You're using copyrighted content on your user page. See below on Fair Use content on User Pages. TCorp 15:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I see, I didn't know about the fair-use rules. Giving me a heads up before changing my user page would have been nice, I'll switch to the allowed box you created. Thanks fot helping to preserve userboxes. Cornell Rockey 22:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox Icons

Hi -- I'm unclear about something. In the {{user asu}} ASU userbox, your edit specified that you removed the ASU logo due to copyright infringement. However, please refer to this quote from the wikipedia fair-use statement associated with the link:

It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the corporation, sports team, or organization in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

It seems to me that the inclusion of this image in a userbox qualifies under the umbrella of "[illustration of] the corporation, sports team, or organization," particularly because the userbox links back to the ASU page. If you don't mind, I'd like clarification. Robert Paveza 07:28, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

See "Fair Use content" clarification below. It sucks, I know, but as long as wikipedia doesn't change its policy on User pages (unlikely since User pages are not encyclopedic content, and are as such not covered by the fair use clause) we can't use fair use images on them via distributed cotent methods (templates). I'd also appreciate it if people didn't blindly revert my edits. I don't like it either, but if the Userboxes Project is to survive, we gotta stick by the rules. TCorp 15:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Use content

Sorry to inform you (as I have also recently been informed), but "fair use" images are not allowed on Wikipedia User pages. Only free ones.

Quote from User_pages:

"Do not include non-free images on your user page or on any subpage thereof. Non-free images (images uploaded to Wikipedia without the permission of the copyright owner, or under licenses that do not permit commercial use) are permitted on Wikipedia in articles only where their inclusion is permissible as "fair use" under copyright law. However, this argument does not apply to user pages. Non-free images found on a user page (including a user talk pages) may be removed from that page without warning (and, if not used anywhere else on Wikipedia, deleted entirely)."

TCorp 14:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

You may want to take a look at Template:User democrat. There has been a reversion war over fair-use of an image on that template going back and forth for weeks. Someone blanked the edit history but the discussion page still has some interesting bits. --StuffOfInterest 17:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't get why they don't get it. It's not that hard to understand. Wikipedia has a clear policy on the "fair usage" of copyrighted works. TCorp 17:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Karmafist seems to think that since he has met Howard Dean he can make policy on use for that particular logo. --StuffOfInterest 17:24, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, if he manages to convince Howard Dean to get the Democratic National Committee to issue a public domain version of the Dem's logo, he can use that in the template. The current Dem's logo is off limits to templates. TCorp 17:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
You had better watch-list it then. He will likely be back within 24 hours to put the image back in. --StuffOfInterest 17:44, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom election

Hi, I had to discount your votes on the arbcom election, because any accounts voting are required to have been created before september 30th. This is to prevent sockpuppeteering. Sorry! --Phroziac . o º O (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 14:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

"Sockpuppeteering"! Sure, I believe you. TCorp 17:31, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I didn't say you were sockpuppeteering. I said that your votes were discounted because of measures in place to prevent sockpuppeteering. --Phroziac . o º O (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 18:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxen style

Umm, Tcorp before you go all bold and everything, could you give people a chance to look at how the new style looks? I thought that Wikipedia:Userboxes/Regional Politics looked a lot better before you removed all borders from the table. It seems to have spread everything out and it doesn't look as professional as it used to. Just give more people a chance to comment on this first.--God of War 01:48, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

It looks spread because of the Code - Results repeating over and over. You could remove some of the "code - result" and see how it looks then. - TCorp 01:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Updated it - How do you like it now?

[edit] Your userpage was briefly delisted by a rogue admin

' This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

You have a userbox Template:User UN which links your userpage to United Nations Wikipedians. There is currently a movement to ban userboxes from Wikipedia which are shared and which create List of Wikipedians. Certain admins have taken it upon themselves to preemptively sabotage and/or delete such categories and template. Here is the incident report which reported damage to yours, in which hundreds of userpages were delinked from categories without the users' knowledge. They have been stopped, barely, and the damage reverted— for now.

There is a Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll, which if passed, will make required by policy the damage done to categories and templates such as User UN/United Nations Wikipedians. If you do not want this to happen, I urge you to vote Oppose. in the poll. Support is currently running at about 66%, and your vote could make the difference. It is said to require 75%-80% to be deemed reflective of consensus.

Thank you,

StrangerInParadise 23:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Creationist userbox

FYI, I've adopted the old User Creationist userbox into my user space. Thanks so much for having subst'ed the code so it survived in some form. --Joe Sewell 17:00, 19 October 2006 (UTC)